another medical

IF wrote: I went to an assessment with ATOS in october and was put in the WRAG group. I appealed straight away but have heard nothing. My local jobcentre checked that my appeal reached them and it did. Last week i got another ESA50 to fill in but no news on the appeal. I find it strange ATOS want this before the appeal has been heard, anyone any idea whats going on.

Five months to hear about the Reconsideration stage is becoming increasingly normal, but I would still recommend that you chase it up with the DWP.

Your appeal is concerned with the Decision last year and can take no account of your condition as it is now.

With regard the ESA50, it sounds like the ATOS prognosis from your assessment last year was for six months and this is why you are being re-assessed. You need to complete this form in detail and provide relevant medical evidence as you can, in effect, treat it as a new application.

The Decision on this re-assessment will limit any revision that the DWP or a Tribunal may make on the previous Decision, and may result in you being placed in the WRAG again, this would be an appealable Decision as before, and could mean that you have two appeals running at the same time.

If we have mentioned this before, forgive me, but your forum name appears to be your real name, if you want to change this please refer to

My full name is showing, how can I stop it?

Gordon